1 During Jehoiakim’s reign King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked ⌊Judah⌋, and Jehoiakim became subject to him for three years. Then Jehoiakim turned against him and rebelled.
2 The Lord sent raiding parties of Babylonians, Arameans, Moabites, and Ammonites against Jehoiakim to destroy Judah as the Lord had predicted through his servants the prophets.
3 Without a doubt, this happened to Judah because the Lord had commanded it to happen. He wanted to remove the people of Judah from his sight because of Manasseh’s sins—everything he had done,
4 including the innocent blood he had shed. He had a lot of innocent people in Jerusalem killed, and the Lord refused to forgive him.